Iranian Ambassador to Armenia: preserving peace important for region

PanARMENIAN.Net - Iran’s ambasasdor to Armenia Seyed Ali Sagayan said he believes his country’s position was the most neutral and balanced one in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

Speaking at a meeting with students of Yerevan State University, the ambassador noted: “The most important thing is preserving the peace, in particular, in our region which has the potential to flare up quickly, as was the case with the Russian-Georgian war.”

Georgian troops attacked the South Ossetia on August 8, 2008 and ruined part of its capital city Tskhinvali. In an attempt to protect the population of South Ossetia, most of them being Russian citizens, Russia’s military entered the republic and forced the Georgian forces out of the region following five-day hostilities.

In late August 2008 Russia recognized independence of South Ossetia and another former Georgian autonomy Abkhazia. Tbilisi reacted to this by breaking off diplomatic relations with Moscow and declaring the two Transcaucasian republics occupied territories.